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It is no secret that traditional platforms for data analysis, like data warehouses, are difficult and expensive to scale, to meet the current data demands for storage and compute. And purpose-built platforms designed to process big data often require significant up-front and on-going investment if deployed on-premise. Alternatively, cloud computing is the perfect vehicle to … Read more

I am always puzzled that people think that “Big Data” is only about archiving massive amounts of data. The disruption in the market was not because companies could archive large amounts of data, but because the business value was realized by insights generated through analytics on the data aggregated. Proven by early adopters, the potential … Read more

Data Engineering groups in large enterprises are typically decentralized. Teams develop specialized skill sets in particular areas of data processing, and have specific charters. For example, a team may be responsible for data acquisition. Another may be responsible for cleansing, transforming, normalizing and analyzing data. Another team of data scientists may be responsible for consuming … Read more

We would like to thank all our users and customers for the great conversations we have had around use cases, the challenges you face with operationalizing a data lake and/or building data analytics solutions, and your candid feedback on CDAP usability. These interactions are invaluable and we always love hearing from you. You have offered … Read more

Enterprise challenges Hadoop has emerged as the leading technology to solve a number of big data use cases. However, enterprises needing to solve their business problems often need to piece together different technologies to build a solution. Each component in the Hadoop technology stack is infrastructure focused and purpose-built to solve a unique set of … Read more

Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP) is a platform-agnostic unified integration platform that allows users to run, manage and deploy big data applications independent of distros on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment. We recently announced the availability of Cloud Sandbox for AWS, and in order to continue to give our customers and users … Read more

Today, we are announcing the availability of CDAP Cloud Sandbox on AWS. The Cloud Sandbox gives CDAP users more choices to experience CDAP. Cloud Sandbox is a fully configured and functional version of Cask’s flagship offering, but scale-limited to a single node instance. Developers can provision an instance of Cloud Sandbox on any of the … Read more

I am very happy to announce the general availability of Cask Data Application Platform 4.2. Over the last few months, we have been focussing on enhancing the user experience and usability of the product – CDAP 4.2 comes with several features that offer a great first five minute user experience of new users of CDAP … Read more

The Application Development Framework in CDAP lets Developers build entire Applications for Big Data. But perhaps the most exciting development here at Cask is our new plugin architecture, which has allowed us to build a Drag ‘n Drop UI for Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. Your Spark or Hadoop code becomes a plugin – … Read more

We are happy to announce the release of Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP) version 4.1. This new release brings with it some major enhancements and significant new capabilities in the platform, as well as new, ready-to-use solutions offered via Cask Market. CDAP 4.1 improves security by allowing fine grained secure impersonation. It introduces replication so … Read more